Satyajit Das

A powerful book . . . highly readable and informative . . . Demands to be read. - Lindsay Tanner, The Monthly Informed, impassioned, insightful and witty, Satyajit Das returns with a substantially updated edition of his 2015 classic. A Banquet of Consequences RELOADED is the only book you need to understand how we got into our current economic, environmental,...

Thirty years ago, two trips to iconic destinations, Africa and the Antarctic, profoundly changed Satyajit Das’s life. Ecotourism – watching wildlife in nature – became his gravitational centre. Wild Quests is a literal and metaphorical record of these travels. Over time, during his encounters with remarkable wild animals in continents across the world, he came to question the underlying preoccupations...

Australia's prosperity relies on the continent's extraordinary natural - primarily mineral - riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical and societal pressures now threaten the nation's high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. Lacklustre reform proposals are mired in ideological necrophilia: ideas which have been tried and failed. Politics is trading...